Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
What a reversal of results for me. Many years ago – 2009, 2010, 2012 to be more precise – my pictures couldn’t get a ribbon at the Altamont Fair. It was emotionally rough. At the same time, my artworks were appearing at the New York State Fair’s photography competition with regularity. It’s certainly a reversal…
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It’s that time again. An opportunity for me to enter my photography into the Altamont Fair’s photo competition. Each year I bring what I think are the photos that will stand out, the ones that have the best chance of claiming silks, the photos that will impress the judges. I’m entering three different competitions this…
Read MoreSunday morning. With all the depressing, horrible, unfathomable news – both in my life and around the world – I needed some private time. And that “private time” meant bashing up a wooden crate for a future crate art project. After taking out my frustration on the scrap wood box, I realized I would need…
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It’s Saturday afternoon and I just came back from a little trip. Oh, looks like the mailman has arrived. Time to reach in the mailbox and … I can feel them. Little cardstocks with postage. My fingers flip through. Six … seven … eight … nine of them. The postcards from Syracuse have arrived. Six…
Read MoreIt’s morning in America, rise and shine, grab your coffee and breakfast and enjoy these great blog posts by my friends and colleagues. Seven posts from my former haunt at the Times Union, and seven posts from my blogroll. Guaranteed to make your day a little bit brighter. Let’s start with the TU community blog…
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I apologize for keeping this Dream Window from you for so long. I’m really, really sorry. I actually built this thing about twelve months ago, but I wanted to save showing it off in the blog until today. And when you read this post, you will understand why I employed an information embargo on this…
Read MoreEvery so often, I find a vintage television show on YouTube that catches my interest. And for various reasons, I want to find out more about it. Such is the case with an Australian program called Agro’s Cartoon Connection. If you tuned on your Oz TV in the mid-1990’s, you might have seen a puppet…
Read MoreLast week, I offered up a question to you, my many blog readers. If I were to put my photos and other artworks up for purchase through my own personal site or through an online store, would you purchase them? The overwhelming response was “Yes.” Okay, you responded, so I’m building a store. And the…
Read MoreWhen I started working on my crate art project, I initially had no idea what to do or how to do it. Sanding, stains, nails, screws, all that stuff, you may as well have tried to explain the infield fly rule to me. So I did what any self-respecting DIY person would do. I gorged…
Read MoreWith only two weeks left before my planned trip to photograph the 2017 Great American Eclipse, the first advance weather forecasts have appeared on various online weather websites. I’ve been worried about my trip – only because if I’m traveling twelve hours to capture an eclipse, the last thing I need is overcast skies or…
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